Windows 7 and 8 are less bloated and easier to use than Ubuntu and Mint.
Then tell me why my ten year old kubuntu tower has half the memory and half the processor speed as my Windows 7 notebook yet runs rings around it?
As to "easier to use", are you on crack? Windows is decidedly user-hostile and takes fifteen clicks to do anything that takes three in KDE.
Windows 7 isn't that bad an OS or I would have installed Linux, but KDE runs circles around it in every way.
I especially hate Windows on patch Tuesday, it's completely unusable for fifteen to twenty minutes. With Linux it's one click and you go on working.
The fact that you don't know this is because rather than actually ever using Linux, you listen to the bullshit from the shills. Please educate yourself.
linux has security benefits in filesystem permissions that are actually used, but its sometimes at the expense of ease of use that windows has
LOL, +1 funny. Nice shill there, crutchy, to bad it's just not true. I have a W7 notebook and a kubuntu tower; the tower is less than half as powerful as the notebook but is a lot faster. Windows useable? That's a joke! What takes one or two clicks in kubuntu takes a dozen in W7. Lets see, where do I shut off the annoying "tap to click" feature in Windows? Nope, not under "mouse" in "control panel", it's buried fifteen clicks down in a hidden icon on the toolbar. That's useable? Kubuntu's control is in its "control panel" right where you would expect it, three clicks and done. But Windows is more useable?
You complain that Linux doesn't have text config files, where are Windows config file? Yep, it has that user-hostile registry. MS got rid of text config files over a decade ago, your registry gets corrupted you reinstall the OS. That's useable?
Yes, I've used regedit. I see little to nothing readable in it.
I got a USB bluetooth dongle, and thought it woudn't work in the tower, since there was no installation software like for Windows. But guess what? No software installation needed in Linux, just plug it in and it works. Yet you think Windows is more useable?
Or lets talk about patches. In Linux, the notification comes in, one click and it's done, finishing in the background, no stupid popups telling you that it's downloading, no stupid popups telling you it's installing, then no popups nagging you to reboot, no five minute shutdow with "do not turn off your computer" followed by five more minutes of the same warning when it restarts, no several more popups after it gets back to the desktop. That's useable? WTF, dude?
I never shut the laptop off and only boot it for patch Tuesday. OTOH I shut the tower down when I don't think I'll be using it for a day or two, because when I restart it I just press the button and get a cup of coffee, when I get back from the kitchen it's as if I'd never shut it down, it having entered the password for me and reopened what was open when I shut it down. Windows lacks these useability features, yet you think Windows is more useable?
When I upgrade Windows (since XP that means a new computer for me) I wind up with a completely different interface to waste time learning. Always prettier but seldom with more features. With the exception of KDE4, a Linux upgrade has no learning curve, it's just more responsive and has added features. But a steep learning curve is more useable???
Please tell me what about Windows is more useable than Linux? Windows is a pain in the ass. And I say this as someone who's been using Linux for ten years and Windows for twenty.
I'm not Bill Gates, eight bucks will buy a chicken dinner at Suzie Q's. I'll gladly pay eight bucks for a good paperback or even thirty for a hardcover, but I refuse to reward mediocre hackwork.
And you STILL want to do business with them? You STILL want to trust their OS with your personal files and/or communications?
It's pretty hard to buy a laptop without "doing business" with them. And I'm sure the NSA can get in my Linux box with little effort, too.
If MS's poorly designed, feature-poor, buggy, user-hostile OS doesn't make folks change OSes I don't think anything will. The only thing keeping Windows on this notebook is laziness, and except for the Patch Tuesday bullshit W7 is almost tolerable. But I'll have to put Linux on it pretty soon, it gets slower every Patch Tuesday.
I'm running kubuntu on the tower. When a patch notification comes in, one click and it's done. No lengthy reboots with "configuring patches, do not turn off your computer." No reopening all the apps that were open after it reboots, no hunting for where I was on that document I was working on when the patch notice comes through.
I haven't booted the tower in months, it only gets shut off when I know I won't be using it for a few days. When I turn the power on it enters the password for me (I live alone) and reopens everything that was open when I shut it down. Guys, if you haven't tried Linux you don't know what you're missing.
I always thought it was odd that after the DoJ kicking MS's ass in court that the incoming Bush administration would pretty much let them off scott-free.
Pretty good guess as to why now.
I have to get off my lazy butt and get Linux on this notebook now...
This kind of crap is why I don't trust Vine reviews. Instead I try to find an ordinary Joe
I'm shaking my head in wonder here. I was probably a teenager when I stopped taking any review of anything seriously, especially reviews of movies, music, and fiction books. Of course, that was a long, long time ago. There was no internet back then, you had to either physically visit a store or buy via mail order. In a physical store you could sample the wares; page through books or listen to records before buying.
There's no way I'd buy a book or record from an author or band I wasn't familiar with. Sadly, physical book and music stores are almost dead. Luckily, we have the Pirate Bay. If it's good I'll buy it, if it sucks I'll delete it.
Hi, kid, welcome to slashdot. Twelve comments, yours FP IIRC. Suspiciously trollish, too stupid to be serious. Note my answer to your stupid comment sits at 3.
Then I see a completely offtopic comment by the same username and same insanely huge UID and looked at your comments.
There's this thing here called "karma." You might want to be a bit more careful.
The problem is Desktop Linux is a bigger change for many of them.
The switch from Wxp or W7 to KDE is less of a change than from XP to 7. The only downside to Linux is games and a few other specialty apps that have no Linux counterpart. KDE is far more like 7 or XP than 8 is.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the subject. The article is well worth reading. What's kept NA-ion batteries away is that their anodes only last 20 cycles. They solved the problem with wood fibers covered with carbon nanotubes, and these can stand hundreds of cycles.
Again, TFA is worth reading.
Now waiting for the inevitable "that article gave me wood" joke...
How, when both of the only two parties the corporate media dare mention are both all for a surveillance state? Remember, a vote for a candidate who doesn't want your loved ones in jail for pot and doesn't want a police state (e.g., Green and Libertarian, both on enough ballots to win) is a wasted vote? All the newspapers and TV stations agree, we need to have a surveillance state and we need to jail your loved ones!
And nobody seems to realize how stupid their vote is, corporate media keep us in the dark.
Both words are synonyms. Waterboarding is neither immersion nor submersion. With waterboarding the victim is made to think he's immersed/submerged but he's getting water poured on him. It's the difference between Catholic baptism and Protestant baptism.
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Informative, where are the mods? Thank you for the info.
Windows 7 and 8 are less bloated and easier to use than Ubuntu and Mint.
Then tell me why my ten year old kubuntu tower has half the memory and half the processor speed as my Windows 7 notebook yet runs rings around it?
As to "easier to use", are you on crack? Windows is decidedly user-hostile and takes fifteen clicks to do anything that takes three in KDE.
Windows 7 isn't that bad an OS or I would have installed Linux, but KDE runs circles around it in every way.
I especially hate Windows on patch Tuesday, it's completely unusable for fifteen to twenty minutes. With Linux it's one click and you go on working.
The fact that you don't know this is because rather than actually ever using Linux, you listen to the bullshit from the shills. Please educate yourself.
linux has security benefits in filesystem permissions that are actually used, but its sometimes at the expense of ease of use that windows has
LOL, +1 funny. Nice shill there, crutchy, to bad it's just not true. I have a W7 notebook and a kubuntu tower; the tower is less than half as powerful as the notebook but is a lot faster. Windows useable? That's a joke! What takes one or two clicks in kubuntu takes a dozen in W7. Lets see, where do I shut off the annoying "tap to click" feature in Windows? Nope, not under "mouse" in "control panel", it's buried fifteen clicks down in a hidden icon on the toolbar. That's useable? Kubuntu's control is in its "control panel" right where you would expect it, three clicks and done. But Windows is more useable?
You complain that Linux doesn't have text config files, where are Windows config file? Yep, it has that user-hostile registry. MS got rid of text config files over a decade ago, your registry gets corrupted you reinstall the OS. That's useable?
Yes, I've used regedit. I see little to nothing readable in it.
I got a USB bluetooth dongle, and thought it woudn't work in the tower, since there was no installation software like for Windows. But guess what? No software installation needed in Linux, just plug it in and it works. Yet you think Windows is more useable?
Or lets talk about patches. In Linux, the notification comes in, one click and it's done, finishing in the background, no stupid popups telling you that it's downloading, no stupid popups telling you it's installing, then no popups nagging you to reboot, no five minute shutdow with "do not turn off your computer" followed by five more minutes of the same warning when it restarts, no several more popups after it gets back to the desktop. That's useable? WTF, dude?
I never shut the laptop off and only boot it for patch Tuesday. OTOH I shut the tower down when I don't think I'll be using it for a day or two, because when I restart it I just press the button and get a cup of coffee, when I get back from the kitchen it's as if I'd never shut it down, it having entered the password for me and reopened what was open when I shut it down. Windows lacks these useability features, yet you think Windows is more useable?
When I upgrade Windows (since XP that means a new computer for me) I wind up with a completely different interface to waste time learning. Always prettier but seldom with more features. With the exception of KDE4, a Linux upgrade has no learning curve, it's just more responsive and has added features. But a steep learning curve is more useable???
Please tell me what about Windows is more useable than Linux? Windows is a pain in the ass. And I say this as someone who's been using Linux for ten years and Windows for twenty.
OK, this is a different tech (I should submit this) but U of I is working on biodegradable cell phones that dissolve in water.
Not Terminator; the "liquid" refers to its manufacturing. This is more like Star Trek IV's transparent aluminum.
I'm not Bill Gates, eight bucks will buy a chicken dinner at Suzie Q's. I'll gladly pay eight bucks for a good paperback or even thirty for a hardcover, but I refuse to reward mediocre hackwork.
Agreed, choosing between a car and a phone is indeed stupid. You need both. Why would I want a phone built into the car when I have one in my pocket?
My 26 year old daughter, in college in Cincinnati, hasn't had a car since the head broke in her old one a few years ago.
And you STILL want to do business with them? You STILL want to trust their OS with your personal files and/or communications?
It's pretty hard to buy a laptop without "doing business" with them. And I'm sure the NSA can get in my Linux box with little effort, too.
If MS's poorly designed, feature-poor, buggy, user-hostile OS doesn't make folks change OSes I don't think anything will. The only thing keeping Windows on this notebook is laziness, and except for the Patch Tuesday bullshit W7 is almost tolerable. But I'll have to put Linux on it pretty soon, it gets slower every Patch Tuesday.
I'm running kubuntu on the tower. When a patch notification comes in, one click and it's done. No lengthy reboots with "configuring patches, do not turn off your computer." No reopening all the apps that were open after it reboots, no hunting for where I was on that document I was working on when the patch notice comes through.
I haven't booted the tower in months, it only gets shut off when I know I won't be using it for a few days. When I turn the power on it enters the password for me (I live alone) and reopens everything that was open when I shut it down. Guys, if you haven't tried Linux you don't know what you're missing.
I always thought it was odd that after the DoJ kicking MS's ass in court that the incoming Bush administration would pretty much let them off scott-free.
Pretty good guess as to why now.
I have to get off my lazy butt and get Linux on this notebook now...
This kind of crap is why I don't trust Vine reviews. Instead I try to find an ordinary Joe
I'm shaking my head in wonder here. I was probably a teenager when I stopped taking any review of anything seriously, especially reviews of movies, music, and fiction books. Of course, that was a long, long time ago. There was no internet back then, you had to either physically visit a store or buy via mail order. In a physical store you could sample the wares; page through books or listen to records before buying.
There's no way I'd buy a book or record from an author or band I wasn't familiar with. Sadly, physical book and music stores are almost dead. Luckily, we have the Pirate Bay. If it's good I'll buy it, if it sucks I'll delete it.
I got burned by reviews at a young age.
My wife is a writer, we've got about 10 books out there ( different pen names )
Interesting. I hope you're not her ( editor ).
Hi, kid, welcome to slashdot. Twelve comments, yours FP IIRC. Suspiciously trollish, too stupid to be serious. Note my answer to your stupid comment sits at 3.
Then I see a completely offtopic comment by the same username and same insanely huge UID and looked at your comments.
There's this thing here called "karma." You might want to be a bit more careful.
What percentage of politicians believe in God? This makes 99+% of politicians in America stupid, or at liars pretending to be stupid, or both.
3/4ths of the world's population believe God or some variation. A third is Christian and a third is Muslim.
Over half of scientists believe in God. You're saying the 2/3rds of thye world's population and over half of its scientists are stupid?
That's just stupid.
So you're just trolling then? OK.
STFU with the stupid offtopic blather, ok? You've posted that same stupid comment more than once.
Someone please mod this guy down.
And you think Apple and Microsoft are any less evil?? How many wind and solar farms are they bankrolling? What kind of phone are YOU using, hypocrite?
I have two words for you -- bribery and extortion. It's how politics work in the US.
Typo. I meant to type NSA not NRA.
The problem is Desktop Linux is a bigger change for many of them.
The switch from Wxp or W7 to KDE is less of a change than from XP to 7. The only downside to Linux is games and a few other specialty apps that have no Linux counterpart. KDE is far more like 7 or XP than 8 is.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the subject. The article is well worth reading. What's kept NA-ion batteries away is that their anodes only last 20 cycles. They solved the problem with wood fibers covered with carbon nanotubes, and these can stand hundreds of cycles.
Again, TFA is worth reading.
Now waiting for the inevitable "that article gave me wood" joke...
We have the internet now, but thanks to the NRA our candle is a searchlight pointing at us. Vote Libbie or Green!
How, when both of the only two parties the corporate media dare mention are both all for a surveillance state? Remember, a vote for a candidate who doesn't want your loved ones in jail for pot and doesn't want a police state (e.g., Green and Libertarian, both on enough ballots to win) is a wasted vote? All the newspapers and TV stations agree, we need to have a surveillance state and we need to jail your loved ones!
And nobody seems to realize how stupid their vote is, corporate media keep us in the dark.
Both words are synonyms. Waterboarding is neither immersion nor submersion. With waterboarding the victim is made to think he's immersed/submerged but he's getting water poured on him. It's the difference between Catholic baptism and Protestant baptism.
Not a bad joke, though.
There is no such thing as "correct" English.
You be writin' in Ebonics in a college English class an' see what da mofuggin teacha say about it, foo.
Spoken English is not written English. Double negatives always parse as positives when written.
Why is this statement modded down?
Morons get mod points, too. Right now it stands at 50% offtopic, 50% insightful. Somebody goofed, that's all.
I'm surprised it took so long.